Staff

Christian Mueller

As Lead Instructor and “Chief Post Advocate,” Coach Mueller has nine years experience as both a head coach and assistant at the Division 1, 2 and NAIA levels. Most recently, Coach Mueller directed post play at the University of the Incarnate Word. In the 2011-12 season, he was instrumental in the team’s march to the Lone Star Conference title game.

Mueller’s specialty is coaching post play. In his first four years coaching in college, five of his post players were recognized as 1st- Team All-Conference. Two eventually signed professional contracts to play overseas. One was an honorable mention All-American. And still another finished her career ranked 18th all-time in career FG percentage.

After working with the Cardinals in 2011-12, Mueller took over the head coaching duties at Round Rock Christian Academy, serving as boys’ varsity coach. He turned around a program that had gone 1-19 the previous year and led them to 18 wins, a district championship, and an Elite 8 TAPPS 3A finish.

Christina Harvey

Coach Harvey is currently the assistant women's basketball coach at Gannon University (NCAA D2). During her collegiate career she was definitive proof that "it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." As a 5’10" perimeter player out of high school, she was asked to play post for Pfeiffer University (NCAA D2). While never the tallest player on the floor and rarely, if ever, the fastest, she committed to the Pivotal Methods and became the most dominant post player in Conference Carolinas. Harvey amassed 1,200 points in slightly more than three seasons. Plus, she garnered 1st-Team All-Conference accolades while ranking 11th nationally in FG %. In 2013 she lead her team to the regional round of the national tournament. Coach Harvey finished her career as the seventh leading scorer in school history.

Katherine Novak (Texas Camps Only)

Coach Novak is about to enter her second season as head coach at Sul Ross State University. Prior to that she spent three seasons as the recruiting coordinator at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. During her time in San Antonio, the Saints held the #1 national ranking for seven weeks and compiled an impressive 81-14 record, which including two trips to the Sweet 16! Coach Novak played collegiate basketball for University of the Incarnate Word, an NCAA Division 1 school inSouthland Conference.

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